BSNL to lease 15,000 PoS to push digital bill payment

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi-State-run BSNL is planning to take on lease about 15,000 point of sale machines to enable more customers to use digital methods of bill payment, and sees digital transactions accounting for up to 40 per cent of all bill payments by March 2017, nearly double of current levels.

“We are in the process of leasing about 15,000 point of sale (PoS) machines to be used by customer service centres so that electronic payment can be encouraged. That is also the direction in which the country is moving, everyone is looking at electronic payment methods,” BSNL CMD Anupam Shrivastava told.

He further said that telecom corporation intends to have about 20-50 customer service centres in each of its telecom districts, equipped with PoS machines. “We have 334 telecom districts or SSA. We are saying that in each telecom district, between 20-50 customer service centres should have PoS machines,” he said, adding that at present, 1,500-2000 PoS machines are available in BSNL’s own customer service centres.